A Shade of Dragon by Forrest Bella

Author:Forrest, Bella [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Coming of Age, Demons & Devils, Vampires, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Psychics, Witches & Wizards, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Werewolves & Shifters, Teen & Young Adult, Paranormal & Urban, Ghosts, Angels, Sword & Sorcery
Published: 2015-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23: NELL

F or some reason, I’d expected Theon to continue walking until he reached a carriage drawn by harpies and chauffeured by a merman in a top hat. That was the world I was starting to expect of him. But his car, hidden behind a knot of weeds and sand, was a silver Honda. He should’ve at least been driving something outrageously expensive, or maybe a motorcycle, but a Honda? It was so… normal.

“You’ll have to forgive me if I ask any questions,” Theon said, stepping to my side of the vehicle and opening its door. He gestured, and I ducked inside. “I’ve never driven here before, and I’m still getting the hang of it.”

We drove onto the central strip of Beggar’s Hole, not far from the Emporium at Shoreside and Goose Pond. My jaw dropped as he hung a right into the parking deck of Broadline Towers. Nothing was more surreal than Theon Aena, born of Iphras and prince of some island called The Hearthlands, renting a freaking Honda and owning a studio apartment at Broadline Towers, which featured cookie-cutter balconies for all their guests and tiny slivers of manicured lawn.

I was staring so hard, I started when Theon appeared at my side and opened the door for me.

“You can tell me if you need me to stop.” Theon placed one warm palm on the tattered shoulder of my plaid coat. I climbed from my seat. “It is a lot. You don’t need to prove anything to me. You can just say when it’s too much.”

“You calm me down, you make me nervous. It turns out you have a Honda and an apartment; it almost makes me feel like you’re already a liar.” My fingers went to my temples; I realized I’d come to a halt, and Theon had turned to address me. “Because you have this magic pendant thing. And you can just—show up when I need you. And you can just skip down a dangerous mountainside while you hold me. And what were you doing in that cave? And how are you so hot all of the damn time?” I meant that on so many levels.

“I can’t answer all those questions in a row like that. Don’t you remember? When the stakes are high, it’s wise to go slowly?”

I cocked my head to the side, but I nodded. I supposed, if the answers to all my questions were really worthy of individual paradigm shifts, it would be smart to let Theon steer the conversation. “Okay,” I said. “Let’s go. You lead.”

Theon wrapped his arm around me and we moved up the wide marble steps of the complex. He pulled the glass door open for me, and we traveled inside to the elevator. I was confused by how pedestrian this all was… and beginning to really worry about how I should react if he ended up being—if this was all—

What if he just had an apartment full of glow-in-the-dark posters of mushrooms and bongs? Or worse, what

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